Rakim then started selling drugs, but the dangers of that lifestyle became all too clear when his older brother Ricky was shot dead by a gangster. He told The Sun in 2013: “He’d been extorting ...

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transcript The rapper Rakim Mayers, also known as ASAP Rocky, jumped into the courtroom gallery to hug his partner, Rihanna, after the jury found him not guilty of shooting a former collaborator.

Notorious gangster Aman Sao, accused in several murder and extortion cases, was shot dead when members of his gang attacked a police vehicle in an attempt to free him from custody in Jharkhand's ...